HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail received from Butte County employee, Wendy Terry regarding contract negotiations Sweeney, Kathleen
From: Wendy Terry[wendy333211 @yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:19 PM
To: Connelly, Bill; Kirk, Maureen; Teeter, Doug; Sweeney, Kathleen; BOS District 4; Wahl, Larry
Cc: Powell-Terry, Wendy@CWS-CMS; wendy333211@yahoo.com wendy333211@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: BAD deal!
On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Wendy Terry<wendyterryl @icloud.com> wrote:
I have nothing to loose...I need to speak up and will do so!...for you to offer upper management a proposed 2%raise
IS INSULTING when only offering Line staff like my self 1%. "I HAVE BEEN A CHILD PROTECTIVE SOCIAL
WORKER FOR 23 YEARS! We have not had any raises pay for 7 years....the deficient sub standard Cola's in the past
never matched the State of California Cola's and then we had to do with out. NOW WE PAY THE TOTAL
CONTRIBUTION OF OUR RETIREMENT PERS ; most Counties do not do this II? Our support staff WHO ARE
LOWER PAID are being charged high fees for health insurance they can not afford due to their low wages.
Obama care, or affordable care act might cover them but because BUTTE County said it had adequate health
insurance...these people are not getting it...Butte County is out of compliance and will be fined by the affordable car
act. This is my understanding about the health insurance issue... So unless my information is incorrect then Butte
County would rather get fined then pay an increase in wages so its lower paid employees can afford the insurance
they offer.
Butte County is obstructing: I just hope you all find it in your hearts to do the right thing! PLEASE FIX THE
INEQUALITY!
The argument that the top 1% deserve their share of economic growth because they're"job creators" and
"innovators"is just a marketing pitch. "Tell me,if you can do so with a straight face,that any aspect of the large
upward leap in inequality we have experienced has paid any benefits at all in terms of true ... human material
welfare-enhancing economic growth," DeLong wrote. "I don't think you can."
Recent efforts to stem inequality have addressed the symptoms, and even so only nibbled at the edges and been
overwhelmed by trends in the opposite direction.Attempts to limit compensation of top corporate officers through
the tax code have largely failed. But laws and regulations aiming to reduce the power of labor unions in the private
and public sectors, and to cut into worker pensions,have burgeoned.And what is the opposition to the Affordable
Care Act if not an effort to obstruct the spread of health coverage to 3o million mostly working-class and poor
Americans —an essential component of social mobility.
Reversing the inequality trend requires a combination of near-term and short-term policy changes.A direct attack
on unemployment is essential;that means more spending by the public sector through infrastructure building
programs and school hiring.The long-term unemployed need to be supported through an extension of
unemployment benefits—the congressional resistance to which is another artifact of the interests of the wealthy
trumping those of the working class.
Improving social mobility for those at the bottom of the scale means improving early childhood education;the
impoverishment of Head Start programs through the sequester is a shameful abdication of responsibility by
a Congress that no longer hears the voices of the socially disadvantaged.
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